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Cyber-shield: Brazil announces govt system to block NSA snooping
Brazil is creating an email system intended to shield the government from NSA spying. The country is set to vote on a cyber-security bill following revelations the US spy network had infiltrated the highest levels of Brazil’s administration.
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24 Traditional Brazilian Foods You Need To Eat Right Now
You haven't lived until you try all of these!
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The Rise And Fall Of Brazilian Billionaire Eike Batista
Eike Bastista was the world’s eighth-richest man, and the poster-boy for the new Brazil, flashy and flush with wealth—until his oil and gas bubble burst.
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Brazil Amazon-From paradise to inferno
It was time to show the crime being committed against the Amazon.
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Carlos Henrique Kaiser ~ Football's Greatest Liar
He is the greatest con-man in the history of football. Using charm and trickery as his weapons, he deceived major clubs into giving him a contract. His name? Carlos Henrique Kaiser – the Brazilian man who “wanted to be a footballer without having to play football.”
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Two killed as crane collapses at Brazilian World Cup stadium
Brazil's World Cup preparations suffered a deadly setback on Wednesday when a crane collapsed, killing two building workers at the São Paulo stadium that is due to host the opening match.
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Meet The Brazilian Man Who Paid $1800 For A PlayStation 4
In October, Sony announced that they would sell the PlayStation 4 in Brazil for 4000 real, or the equivalent of 1800 USD. That’s right: the citizens of the fifth largest country in the world have to pay more than four times what Americans pay for the new console, if they choose to buy it in stores in Brazil. The reason? Largely, a staggering import tax.
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U.S. Faces Difficult Path in World Cup
The opening game of the World Cup is still more than six months away, but there were some obvious winners and losers after the tournament’s draw was held Friday in Costa do Sauípe, Brazil. The United States, which made a dramatic run to the knockout rounds four years ago in South Africa, will have a much more difficult task this time.
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Girls kidnapped by drug gangs and sold as sex slaves to cash in on the 2014 FIFA World Cup
BEHIND the stadium where next year's FIFA World Cup opener will beam out to 3.2 billion viewers, child prostitute Poliana plies her trade in a slumland shack. Poliana is 14 years old and has been selling her body for only three months, but she is not short of clients.
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Workers at Brazil World Cup Stadium Walk Off Job
(RIO DE JANEIRO) — News reports say construction workers have walked off the job at the World Cup stadium in Brazil's jungle city of Manaus after a worker fell 115 feet to his death. The G1 Internet portal said the stoppage has brought all work on the stadium to a halt.
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Snowden offers to help Brazil investigate NSA spying when he's given asylum
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has pledged to help Brazil investigate the NSA’s spying activities. Snowden said he had been asked by Brazilian senators for information on “suspected crimes against Brazilian citizens.”
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A flashy funeral for 'Great Train' robber Ronnie Biggs
Ronnie Biggs, the British criminal who won worldwide fame as a member of the gang that committed the “Great Train Robbery” of 1963, was given a colorful gangster style funeral in London on Friday.
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Over 2,000 rally against World Cup in Brazil
More than 2,000 protesters took to the streets of Brazil’s largest city of Sao Paulo on Saturday to rally against the high cost of the World Cup, marking this year’s first major protest against the tournament.
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The Brazilian Slum Children Who Are Literally Swimming in Garbage
According to government estimates, some 6,500 children live in the slums in the Arruda and Campina Barreto neighbourhoods on Recife’s north side. Many of them wade through garbage to eke out a living just as Paulo does, but it was only after his image appeared in the press that the local government and international authorities took notice of their plight.
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Obese Fans Will Get Discounts, Special Wider Seats At The World Cup
All 12 of the stadiums hosting 2014 World Cup matches will be either new or completely renovated, and a recently passed Brazilian law requires that at least one percent of their capacity be devoted to seats for fans with disabilities, including obesity.
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Brazil Has Been Trying To Cover Up Critical Fire Damage To A World Cup Stadium
An October fire at a Brazilian World Cup stadium caused far more damage than previously reported, according to a report by local prosecutors obtained by Reuters, raising questions about whether the stadium will be ready for the competition and why government officials have insisted the blaze was minor.
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New threat to Brazil's breadbasket: a pesky caterpillar
Brazilian farmers are battling a voracious caterpillar that likely arrived from Asia, challenging the agricultural superpower's widely touted mastery of tropical farming
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Brazilian Robbery Gone Wrong
Wait for it!
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Cell to Cell: How Smuggled Mobile Phones Are Rewiring Brazil's Prisons
On January 18, 2013, prison guards in the Brazilian city of Joinville rounded up a group of inmates and began torturing them. Over the course of four hours, the naked men were shot with rubber bullets and doused with pepper spray. In a video clip, the men are seen in the fetal position, waiting for the attack to end.
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Amazon Rainforest in Brazil the most dangerous place in the world for environmental activists
According to Global Witness, the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil remains the most dangerous place in the world for environmental activists. Of 908 environmental activists killed in 35 countries since 2002, 448 were murdered in one country alone: Brazil. And the murder rate is increasing; from 51 in 2002 to 147 in 2012. In most cases the killers are out free, with only 10 convictions out of 908 dead.
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